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With the modern threat of extinction of samples of traditional musical culture in various regions of the world, the problem of saving folklore is becoming particularly important. The Far East is a unique ethnic region where representatives of entirely different traditional cultures live. The authors use the Far East of Russia and China as an example in their study. The researchers introduce information and music computer technologies (MCT) as the means of the problem solution. Nowadays, the musicians admit the viability of MCT as the means of musical culture research, transmission, and preserving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information is provided in the International Academic Conference sponsored by several organizations, including the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society, the Academic Council for Comprehensive Studies of Contemporary China and the Institute for Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS IFES), held at the RAS IFES in Moscow, Russia from October 16-18, 2013. Topics include reforms in the People's Republic of China (PRC), Chinese civilization's history and China's foreign trade.

This article provides a report on the 19th International Scientific Conference entitled "China, Chinese Civilization and the World: History, Modern Age, Prospects," which was held in Moscow, Russia, from October 19-21, 2011. Topics discussed include the Xinhai Revolution in China in 1911, Chinese economic development, and Chinese-Russian relations.

The article presents a study regarding the new methods of seismic monitoring and mapping on the active faults and zones in the Amur Region. It mentions that the accumulation of the earthquake sources reflect to the development of modern lithosphere destruction zones, in which it says that the said destruction zones have transformed into a unambiguously mapped structural units. It states that the study distinguished four modern lithosphere destruction zones in the region wherein the axis of the first zone is found in the northern part of the region and the second zone was found in the southern part of the region. The study also estimates the regularities of the spatiotemporal localization of the earthquake sources in the area.

The article presents discussion of the proceedings from the 18th International Academic Conference "China, Chinese Civilization and the World: History, the Present and Prospects," held in 2009 at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies in Moscow, Russia, in honor of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People Republic of China and its diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Featured presenters included Wu Enyuan, Qu Wei, and A. V. Ostrovsky.

The authors attempted to analyze the book by Professor Li Mingbin of Beijing University entitled History of Russian Sinology in the context of Russian historiography in the field of Sinology. The book under review contains a comprehensive description of Russian Sinology in the spheres of literature, history, philosophy, etc. in different periods of our history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the 17th International conference "China, Chinese civilization and the World. Past, Present, and Future," held at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies in Moscow, Russia on October 22-24, 2008. The conference features notable Russian and foreign scholars including M. L. Titarenko, R. Gretre, and Li Zhaomu. Topics include Chinese economic reform, Chinese foreign economic relations, and the international trade and economic cooperation between Russia and China.

The article focuses on the 16th International scientific conference entitled "China, Chinese Civilization and the World: Past, Present and Future," held at the Scientists' Club of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The participants and guests of the conference included Russian sinologists and Chinese scholars. The various aspects of the mutual perception of Russia and China in the past, present and future were discussed at the event. It cites the negative impact of certain cultural factors on Sino-Russian relations.

The genus Psiloboletinus was proposed by Rolf Singer in 1945 based on Phylloporus lariceti , a species that associates with Larix in the Altai Mountains of central and eastern Asia. However, this classification has been controversial due to the morphological similarity to known genera Boletinus and Fuscoboletinus . Because of the lack of fresh material to study, the phylogenetic position of Psiloboletinus has remained unknown since its publication. However, the recently described species Suillus foetidus reported from northeast China allows this issue to be reexamined and resolved. Through morphological observations and comparison, we find that S. foetidus is a heterotypic synonym of Ps. lariceti . Furthermore, Psiloboletinus should be retained as an independent genus sister to Suillus based on molecular phylogenetic evidence and morphological features.